(CNN)Republican candidates who espouse Donald Trump's false claims that the last presidential election was stolen are steadily advancing through primaries for positions to oversee the next one in swing states.
The latest instances came Tuesday in Arizona and Michigan. Mark Finchem, who attended the January 6, 2021, rally before the attack on the US Capitol but has denied he participated in the riot, won the GOP nomination for Arizona secretary of state, the state's top election official. Abraham Hamadeh, who has pledged to "take the fraud in our 2020 election seriously," emerged as the Republican nominee for Arizona attorney general.
And Kari Lake, an outspoken promoter of election conspiracy theories, held a narrow lead in the state's Republican gubernatorial primary.
In Michigan, Tudor Dixon prevailed as the GOP nominee for governor. Dixon said at a debate in May that she believes Trump won the state in 2020, though during an interview with Fox News last weekend she did not directly answer if she thought the election was stolen.
Two other election deniers are likely to join her on the ballot. The state party endorsed Kristina Karamo, who has claimed she witnessed irregularities during the last election, for secretary of state and Matthew DePerno, who was involved in a legal case challenging the 2020 results, for attorney general at a convention in April and will make its formal picks for those positions later this month.
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